I have an old PATA drive (IBM-DTLA-307020, 20 GB) that's developing bad sectors at an alarming rate and is getting replaced. It's certainly given e2fsck and badblocks a workout. (Complaint: why doesn't e2fsck pass the *current* bad block list to badblocks -i, so it doesn't have to produce all those errors again?) But, anyway, it's not much use for data storage, but might make a great test case for error handling. Does anyone want such a thing for development purposes? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html